Samantha Bates

Visiting Researcher

Samantha Bates is a visiting researcher at the Henkaku Center where she works on AI ethics and safety projects. Sam brings extensive operations and academic research experience to the team. She previously managed operations and partnerships for xD.gov, a data science and emerging technologies team at the U.S. Census Bureau; she was the Executive Director of a research nonprofit, Center of Complex Interventions; and she ran a fiscal sponsor for academic nonprofits called YarnLabs. She also managed research at MIT and worked as a researcher at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Before entering the academic and non-profit space, Sam worked at Google. She has a master’s degree in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in History from Grinnell College.